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If you’re ready to begin to micro-fast, you may be curious about how you go about doing so. When you start, consider micro-fasting every day. Although you don’t necessarily have to, from our experience, most people’s adherence tends to improve when they micro-fast …

A relatively new entrant into the world of fasting, the 5:2 Diet aims to do away with the feelings of deprivation and struggle that people so often experience in traditional dieting. Instead, it encourages a modified fasting program in which fasting days are …

Avoid any food or drink that will cause a spike in insulin because insulin is the hormone that regulates whether you store fat or release it. By maintaining low levels of insulin throughout your fast, you ensure that the body has a chance …

Intermittent fasting is the voluntary abstention from any food or drink that contains calories. So during the 24 hours in which you’re fasting, you need to be mindful of what you consume and make sure that it doesn’t have any unnecessary calories. These …

Success is a habit. And a habit is simply how you go about doing things, over and over. Habits are programmed and are largely unconscious acts (you don’t think about them). Because habits are programmed, they’re ultimately programmable, which means they can be …

In order to install a successful mindset before you begin any dietary or lifestyle change, you need to set realistic expectations for yourself to ensure both motivation and adherence. If you enter into fasting with unrealistic or downright delusional expectations, and you end …

Even though fasting may reduce the effects of poor eating habits, it’s not a powerful enough mechanism to completely prevent or reverse the ailments brought about from an unhealthy diet. What you eat when not fasting is just as important as the practice of …

Fasting, at first, can be draining. And we don’t want you to think that everything with fasting is rainbows and unicorns. Compare it to the first time you worked out intensely after some time in between workouts. More than likely, you were exhausted, …

Individuals who engage in calorie restriction tend to live longer. In fact, many cultures that regularly engage in such practices have shown to extend their lives. However long-term calorie restriction does have its downsides. Aside from the general bummer of just not being …

Fasting can help you lose fat and gain muscle. But we won’t mislead you — losing fat and gaining muscle are two diametrically opposed goals. One requires a caloric surplus, the other a deficit. Any hype about doing both at the same time …